On June 27, 1917, the First Battalion, less the Fifteenth Company
which joined the battalion the following day, disembarked from the
De Kalb and occupied quarters ashore. On this date Lieut. Col.
Logan Feland joined the Fifth Regiment. On June 28, 1917, the
Second and Third Battalions went ashore from the Henderson for a
practice march, and the following day the First Battalion erected
tents for the regiment on a camp site a short distance outside of
St. Nazaire. By 8 p. m., July 3, 1917, the entire Fifth Regiment
was ashore under canvas.
McClellan, Maj Edwin N., USMC, The United States Marine Corps in the World War (Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1920).
(Photos: Top: 5th Marines disembarking on the docks at St. Nazaire. Bottom: 5th
Marines serving food in open field, St. Nazaire, July 1917).
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